My Current Interest

                It’s so frustrating.   Yet another really good show has been cancelled.   First it was The Crimson Field .   Then it was Home Fires (which I will be writing about at a later date) and The Doctor Blake Mysteries .   Now it’s Mercy Street .   Three of these shows feature strong women during war time.   For some reason, shows like that have a hard time staying around.   Why?   I don’t know, but I do have my theories.   However, even with my theories, it does not make sense to me.                   Abraham Lincoln has just visited the Union hospital, and little does he know, he has just avoided assassination.   Volunteer nurse Emma Green’s (Hannah James) boyfriend was the one intended to carry out the assassination.   Something, however, went wrong, and now Frank Stringfellow (Jack Falahee) is on the run.   With the help of Emma’s sister, Alice (AnnaSophia Robb), Frank hides out in their house until it’s okay to escape, as Allan Pinkerton (Brian F. O’Byrne) and his

                 I must say, now that I have read the second book in the Magical Cats Mysteries , I am really disappointed I did not continue with this series earlier.   While I enjoyed the first book, the second is far better.   Not only does it flow better, but all of the characters seem to be getting settled into who they are.   These advancements made this book a great joy to read, and I eagerly await the next.                 Kathleen Paulson is really starting to settle into here new life in Minnesota.   She has a home, two magical cats, good friends, and even a love interest.   While Kathleen would deny the love interest part, all in all, she is truly becoming part of the town.                 She isn’t fully there yet, though.   There are still people and things Kathleen does not know about having not grown up in the town.   One of those people is the elderly Agatha Shepherd.   When Agatha is found dead, it is clear Kathleen is from somewhere else because she is one of

                 I did something with this book I rarely, and I mean rarely , ever do with mysteries.   I looked ahead in the book.   Not to see what happens with the mystery, but to see if the situation between Katie and the two romantically interested men was going to get resolved.   There were so many little comments from people all around Katie, add that with the tension between the two men themselves, and I was starting to go nuts with this situation unresolved.   I had to look ahead to see if the one I am cheering for was chosen in the end.   At the very least, I wanted him and Katie to be friends again.                                   It’s been months since Katie Lightfoot came to Savannah and learned she was a witch.   Very quickly she settled into her Savannah life, but being a witch has not been so easy.   There is a lot about being a witch, and magic in general, that Katie still has yet to learn.   One of those things is about the existence of a local Druid group c

               Just as what happened with the first book in this series , I had a hard time getting into this book.   I think this time it wasn’t the writing, but the character Sally that got on my nerves.   When she was on her own she was fine.   It was when she would interact with Julian that her behavior bothered me.   Thankfully, through most of the book Sally was on her own and the annoying behavior would come to a stop.   At least it did for the most part.                   Sally Stokes is a prostitute.   A prostitute who has the habit of stealing the handkerchiefs of the men she is with.   One night, Sally finds she has also pick-pocketed a letter with one of the handkerchiefs.   With three men as the possible owner, Sally turns to her brother Dipper and his employer Julian Kestrel for help.                 The letter is from a distressed young woman whose identity is unknown.   Based upon the information they can pull from the letter, Julian figures out the woman must be f